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The NYPD has yet to shut down the Brownstone Brooklyn brothel exposed by The Post over the weekend, but at least one city correction officer took action Monday — by convincing his “girlfriend” who works there to quit.

“I read the New York Post story. That’s why I’m here. I told her, ‘This place is crazy, you got to get out of here,’ ” the man said.

The man had driven up to the red-curtained establishment, Tao, on Smith Street in a white Nissan Armada SUV, which had an “NYC Department of Corrections Rikers Island’’ pass in its window.

He later admitted to The Post that he was a jail guard but refused to give his name.

The man went inside the tawdry massage parlor for about a minute and then left with a woman who had been inside. The pair walked down the block hand in hand.

When they returned to the brothel a short time later, the woman went back in. While waiting for her to come out again, the man told The Post that she was his “girlfriend’’ and that he had urged her to leave her job there.

A man who identified himself as a Rikers Island jail guard enters the ‘brothel’ along with a woman he called his girlfriend.Stefan Jeremiah

As The Post reported Sunday, the storefront at 257 Smith St., in the stroller-mom, hipster enclave of Carroll Gardens, has been doubling as a bordello.

The woman soon exited the storefront again carrying a duffel bag stuffed with belongings. She and the man then hopped into his SUV and drove off.

The NYPD said Monday that the site has been under “investigation’’ by detectives for awhile.

“The precinct [commanding officer] has been aware of the issue from community complaints. These things take some time. We are on it,’’ NYPD Assistant Commissioner Peter Donald told The Post.

A man who appeared to be an NYPD plainclothes detective did drive up to the storefront Monday morning but just looked at the door and left.

Others cops in patrol cars also drove by Monday and pointed it out to each other but then left, too.

City Hall said the mayor, whose former council district is a half-block away from the seedy establishment, “is aware of the issue and is no doubt concerned.

“We’ve been in communication with the NYPD, which has detectives investigating the matter,” spokesman Austin Finan said.

Meanwhile, the shop’s “open’’ sign in its window was off Monday, and a woman futilely tried to lower the iron gate over its entrance at one point.

“Sorry, sorry,’’ the woman said when approached by a Post reporter before scurrying off in her bathrobe.